different between padge vs beige

English

Alternative forms

• pudge

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æd?

Noun

padge (plural padges)

1. (Britain, dialect) The barn owl.

Anagrams

• gaped, paged

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French (dialectal) beige, from Old French bege (“color of undyed wool or cotton”), from an Alpine language (compare Franco-Provençal bézho, Romansch besch (“dull grey”)), from Vulgar Latin *bysseus (“cottony grey”) (compare French bis, Catalan bis, Italian bìgio), from Late Latin byssus 'cotton', from Ancient Greek ?????? (bússos) 'cotton homespun', from Semitic (compare Hebrew/Aramaic ???? (b??)). Doublet of bice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?be??/, /?be?d?/
• Rhymes: -e??, -e?d?

Noun

beige (countable and uncountable, plural beiges)

1. A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.

2. Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.

Translations

Adjective

beige (comparative beiger or more beige, superlative beigest or most beige)

1. Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
2. (informal) Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.

Synonyms

bland, indistinct, colorless, drab

Derived terms

• Beige Book

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

• beige on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch beige, from French beige.

Adjective

beige (attributive beige, comparative beiger, superlative beigeste)

1. beige

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French beige, from Middle French beige, from Old French bege.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b????/
• Hyphenation: bei?ge

Adjective

beige (comparative beiger, superlative meest beige or beigest)

1. beige

Inflection

Derived terms

• beigeachtig

Finnish

Alternative forms

• beesi, bees

Etymology

Borrowed from French beige.

Adjective

beige (comparative beigempi, superlative beigein)

1. beige

Declension

Noun

beige

1. beige (color)

Declension

French

Etymology

From Old French bege.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??/

Adjective

beige (plural beiges)

1. beige

Descendants

Further reading

• “beige” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French beige.

Pronunciation

• Predicative form: IPA^(key): /be??/, /b???/
• Inflected forms: IPA^(key): /be???/, /b????/, /be???/, /b????/
• Rhymes: -e???, -e??, -???, -????, -e???, -????

Adjective

beige (not comparable)

1. beige

Usage notes

Beige is inflected like a regular adjective in pronunciation. However, since its basic form is written with a mute -e, the inflectional ending -e is not visible in writing: das beige [be???] Haus – the beige house.

The other inflectional endings are visible: in dem beigen Haus – in the beige house.

Declension

Related terms

• Beige

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba????/
• Hyphenation: bei?ge

Verb

beige

1. first-person singular present indicative of beigen
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of beigen
3. third-person singular present subjunctive of beigen
4. second-person singular imperative of beigen

Further reading

• “beige” in Duden online

Luxembourgish

Etymology

Borrowed from French beige.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?be??/

Adjective

beige (masculine beigen, neuter beiget, comparative méi beige, superlative am beigesten)

1. beige

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• besj (alternative spelling)

Adjective

beige (singular and plural beige)

1. beige

References

• “beige” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• besj (alternative spelling)

Adjective

beige (singular and plural beige, comparative beigare, indefinite superlative beigast, definite superlative beigaste)

1. beige

References

• “beige” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bei?/, [?bei??]

• IPA^(key): /?beis/, [?bei?s]

Adjective

beige (invariable)

1. Alternative form of beis

Noun

beige m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of beis

Further reading

• “beige” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

Attested from 1895. Borrowed from French beige. The slang definition is likely associated to the perceived blandness of the color.

Pronunciation

• (Sweden) IPA^(key): /be??/, /b???/
• Rhymes: -e??, -???

Adjective

beige

1. beige.

2. (slang) boring, uninteresting, negative.

Declension